Ideas for a custom magic item.

[Thickfreakness]

So this new character I'm making is a tiefling sorcerer, named Acherus, and grandaddy was a contract devil.

So he's obviously running around with the infernal bloodline, but that's really all I've decided for him. The backstory is that he knows exactly who the devil is, as the contract his grandmother made was for the devil to help her produce a half fiend son, in return for the lifelong (and everafter) service of her grandson.

So Acherus, my character, has served his grandfather faithfully, if not begrudgingly, for the last 70 odd years. From good ol' grandad, he's picked some things up, such as becoming a master scribe, proficient in his style of combat with whips (as contract devils will use their contracts as such), and a reward for his faithful service.

Thing is, I can't decide/design exactly what this item would be. I was thinking some scroll like thing, but I have no idea what it would do. It wouldn't be a book, I'd think, as a spell book is irrelevant to a sorcerer, unless I'm mistaken. Any ideas, O wise and powerful message board?

[Weirdo]

Where exactly does the item come in? Something from grandaddy devil? If so it's likely to be sinister in nature.

Are you sure you need a custom item? Pages of Spell Knowledge sound like what you want, or you could try a wounding whip.

If you do want a custom item you need to be prepared to work closely with your GM since they are responsible for approving custom items.

[Thickfreakness]

Yeah, it's from grandad.
His whip is already enchanted to do lethal damage anyway.
I just was looking for brainstorming.
Maybe he has a scroll that he can read from once a day, etc, that serves the same role as the fiendish vessel's familiar? (It grants minor augury/future seeing abilities.)
I dunno, I just need ideas.
And I'm reasonably sure as long as it's not insane, the DM will ok it, at the start of the campaign all of the players were given a ring of sustenance and some other magic item relevant to their character.

[Liz Courts]

Moved thread.

[Thickfreakness]

Anyway, someone pitched me the idea today that it could be a quill. It'd possibly be an intelligent item (which grandad could use to spy), with the ability to either grant comprehend languages/read magic/etc. so many times per day, or to just always have it on.
And a neat extra power, the ability to cast a geas on anyone that I get to sign a contract with it.

[Weirdo]

Comprehend Languages and Read Magic seem a bit odd on a quill, unless it writes out a translation.

The geas is a really good idea.

[Thickfreakness]

Well, I was thinking maybe instead of giving comprehend language, maybe it could just shift whatever I write into any language I wish?

But yeah, I love the geas. I'm planning on contacting grandad, getting a contract, then duping someone into signing their soul away instead of mine.

[Weirdo]

One directional Tongues could also be very interesting. Forgery quills could also be fun, though perhaps not the lawful flavour you're looking for - some sort of anti-forgery mechanism like the quill refusing to write down a lie (a statement the writer knows to be false) could also be interesting.

That sounds like a fun plan.

[VRMH]

A servant.

[Thickfreakness]

Weirdo wrote:

One directional Tongues could also be very interesting. Forgery quills could also be fun, though perhaps not the lawful flavour you're looking for - some sort of anti-forgery mechanism like the quill refusing to write down a lie (a statement the writer knows to be false) could also be interesting.

That sounds like a fun plan.

Right, and it being an intelligent item, I would assume it to be lawful evil as well, which would be neat if it has self restrictions.

For example, it wouldn't allow me to use it to write up a bad deal, or it refuses to write in anything other than blood, constantly demands me to cut a deal with it to use it, etc.